Finance Planning Manager - America's

## Finance Planning Manager - America'sApply:
Remote:
Full time:
Posted 20 Days Ago:
JR100348

Dover Imaging & Identification (DII) is a segment of Dover Corporation that includes the following brands:
Markem-Imaje, Blue Bite, Solaris Laser, Systech, MS Printing Solutions and JK Group. We design, manufacture and deliver industrial equipment, consumables, software and services solutions for the marking & coding, consumer engagement, product traceability, authentication, and digital textile printing markets.

With more than 40 offices and over 3,000 employees worldwide, DII has a presence in +28 countries and offers numerous job opportunities globally. If you're looking for an international, multidisciplinary and collaborative environment that offers a world of opportunities, come join us at DII.
* * THIS POSITION IS REMOTE, CAN SIT ANYWHERE IN USA
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* About the role:

** The Financial Planning Manager - Americas role is a key enabler of robust data driven decisions through careful planning to lead to better financial outcomes for the business in the region. As a finance planning manager, you will use and enhance advanced analytics methods and models (e.g., predictive, machine learning, simulation, statistical) to improve predictability of the revenue flows in the short, mid, and long term.

You will also ensure that methods used are transparent and free from  this role, you will partner with finance and business users to understand requirements and identify opportunities for data driven initiatives and play an active role in the planning cycle. You will also train the rest of the finance organization to understand and improve data quality throughout data production and storage.

To be successful in this role, you should possess exceptional storytelling skills to effectively communicate data insights to business leaders. Further, an aptitude and curiosity for understanding business and financial concepts is highly preferred.
** Responsibilities:**
* ** Drive finance planning processes by effectively using predictive analytics and statistical models**:  + Work closely with stakeholders to understand business models and provide data-driven solutions to drive the revenue forecast.  + Improve performance-monitoring capabilities for faster sensing and responding.  + Effectively use current statistic methodology to produce and communicate financial prediction.  + Participate to the SO&P and short-term forecast meetings and process to drive enrichment and reduce bias in financial planning.  

+ Define and scope the finance use cases that can benefit from ML solutions.
* ** Drive revenue and OPEX forecast task for Americas in the system:**  + Perform system submission for the entities in scope.  + Maintain hierarchies that are needed for revenue forecast.  Act as system (Onestream) expert for the region.  + Track KPI’s on predictive analytics such as bias, enrichment power and forecast accuracy.
* ** Perform exploratory data analysis and identify new and emerging drivers and KPI’s:**  + Discover new data sources, document them and promote their reuse.  + Design and maintain data pipelines for more efficient and repeatable data science projects regarding financial planning.  + Network with domain experts to better understand the business mechanics that generated the data.  + Collaborate with machine learning scientists to continuously improve and refine model performance (e.g., identifying new data sources, hypothesis testing, feature engineering, model prototyping, analyzing model output and model explainability).  

+ Curate and engineer the data from refined stores (i.e., labelling and annotating the data).
* ** Use advanced analytics techniques to support strategic decision=making:**  + Apply statistical…